The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-09
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.


GEORGIA.
The organization of a cavalry company i.
talked of at Brunswick.
. The ST. Andrews coast buoy is aaoat.
This is the one used by the steamers.
The conference of the Rome district of the
Methodist Episcopal church is in session al
Rome.
Mrs. Cleveland will accompany the Presi-
dent to Atlanta when he comes TO visit the
exposition.
Daltontes are said to be indignant at the
Communication of Holmans sentence. Lynch
ing is talked of.
The colored citizens of Washington havo
organized a fire company and purchased a
hook and ladder truck.
There is a movement on foot to petition
the Ordinary to order an election on the
whisky question in Gordon county.
The annual convention of the Whitfield
County Sunday School Association will be
held at Five Springs on Saturday, July 80.
Hon H. H. Carton has a young man
named J. H. Arnold taking a list of all the
white voters i'll the Eighth district, that he
might know their names and where to ad-
dress them.
Col Tiff, of Albany, has ordered the pip
ing, and says he will lay mains and be pre-
part of the city with water from his alte-
sian well before long
The Clarke Light Infantry, of Augusta
will leave OF their Greenville excursion this
morning at o'clock and return Monday.
The excursion is given to raise funds for the
purcL asc of new uniforms.
The S-year-old son of Mr.. Han, about four
miles from Decatur, was bitten by what is
supposed to have been a mad dog,
in five different places, last Friday A mad
stone was applied, and it is hoped did good
In October the Princeton factory at Ath-
ems viii be sold at public cutlery and it is
reported that DR.. Hamilton will probably
buy it, This is one of the best water powers
around Athens and can easily operate three
times as much machinery as is now in us.
Maj McClung, of Gwinnett. county, has
been living in the same house where he now
lives for fifty -three years. During all that
time he has been III Ben Smiths district
Recently the district lines were so changed
as to cut him Off in another district. He
says he does not feel at home.
The mills of r. j. Merritt about five
miles south of Gainesville, were burned last
Saturday night. AS there had been no fire
about the premises since the night before,
the presumption is that it was the work of
an incendiary. The loss will amount to
several hundred dollars, with no insurance.
Collector Crenshaw has forwarded to
Washington his report for the fiscal year
ending June 30, 1887. This shows the Office
to be in excellent condition For the year
ending June 30, the collections from all
sources were 1886, 69S n, as against S3O3,-
97l,91 for the year ending June so, 1886.
The balance in favor of this year is S32,-
1856
Charles Townley's grocery at Dalton was
burned out few days ago. Mr.. Townley
had only a few hundred dollars insurance
ON his stock of goods, but before the sun
went down that day the generous, liberal
hearted citizens of Dalton had raised sum
necessary to cover all losses, and forced the
unexpected donation upon the grateful gen
tleman.
A Walker county constable by the name
of Hayes was arrested last week on the
charge of obstructing the mail Hayes
levied an attachment on the horse used in
carrying the mail from Ringgold to Rock
Spring, compelling the mail boy TO walk the
entire distance. Hayes was taken before
Commissioner Walker, and in default OF
bail was committed to Fulton county Jail
A woodcock was flushed in the heart of
Albany Thursday. 1t was almost as gentle
as a chicken, and few from one side of
Broad street to the other, greatly to the
temptation of Sportsmen to risk being fined
for shooting it, This bird is not plentiful
IN that section, and its appearance on a
crowded thoroughfare excited good deal
OF speculation as to how it came to be there
AT meeting of the Confederate Veter-
ans Association of Troup county resolutions
were unanimously adopted inviting all of
the survivors of the Thirteenth and Sixtieth
Georgia regiments c. S. A, to meet their
comrades in LaGrange on the first Wednes-
day in August TO attend the annual reunion
OF this association. Ample provisions will
be made for their comfort and enjoyment
The contract has been awarded and st.
Paurs Episcopal church, at Augusta, will
be one of the handsomest churches in the
city. The entire building will be receiled
and repanted. The building will be wains-
cotted, and the frescoing and painting will
be very elegant and elaborate The win
dows will all be elegantly decorated with
stained glass. The chancel will be recessed
and the acoustics made excellent.
A paragraph in the Macon Telearoph
notes the omission from Mr. Munro's list of
Georgia brigadiers in the Confederacy the
names of Monkey, Sorrel and Girardey. At
tention is called to the omission, also of the
names of Gen. Phil Cook, Gen. E. T. Alex
ander, Gen. c. A. Evans and Gen. L. j. Gar
trelL Perhaps other names should also be
included. The omission doubtless arises
from defective records at Washington.
Commissioner Henderson received Thurs
day from Primus w. Jones, the great first
bale man, ten magnificent melons, aggre-
eating $40 pounds. The melons were cut
during the day, large numbers of the mem
bers of the Legislature partalzing thereof.
Commissioner Henderson also received YES
terday the first new sweet potatoes of the
season, the early variety, coming from the
place of H. Z. W. Palmer, at Edgewood
AT Macon Wednesday afternoon, at mill
No 2, Miss Lizzie Brooks, one of the opera
tives, lost her balance in some way while
trying TO sit in a window, and fell to the
ground. She had an open knife in her
pocket, which entered her side when she
fell, intlicting what is feared is a dangerous
wound, as the blade turned in the direction
of her stomach. The young girl was car
ried TO her home near the factory and a
physician called.
A hitch has occurred in tho preliminary
arrangements Of the anti'Prohibition
party of Whitfield county. The petition,
praying for an election, presented TO
the Ordinary last week, was found
upon examination TO have been i'm
properly drawn up, or not in accordance
with the law bearing upon the subject. So
new petition will have TO be made out and
signed again, which will necessarily cause a
delay Of another month
Thursday Comptroller General Wright re-
ceived number of returns from the Tax
Collectors in all parts of the State. The
routine business OF the office is very heavy
just now, and il Is difficult 10 keep up with
the work owing tO tho couetant' i,tor,,,,,